I recently discovered that the Internet is gentrifying cottage cheese and it explains why it's so hard to find now even in rural ass North Carolina.
#Food
@Shelter Literally why we can't have nice things
Lobster - garbage of the sea that only poor people ate.
Suddenly -!!!
@Shelter Chicken wings. Used to be the part that rich folks didn't want. Could get 'em for 13¢/lb.
@Shelter Most of the best foods were created out of necessity. The ability to take cheap staples and turn them into truly flavorful things that people are happy to eat day-to-day is basic survival for the poor. Eventually the rich got a taste, realized that it was better than the "fine" stuff they were eating, and started paying attention to what the rest of us were eating.
@aspecurian @Shelter Brisket is in that category right?
I had a delicious Arby's Smokehouse for lunch.
Oxtails are one of the more recent.
They got jacked up.
"According to the USDA’s National Monthly Grass Fed Beef Report, beef oxtail has risen in price from a little over $9 in January 2018 to nearly $14 per pound. Most oxtail recipes involve about 4 to 5 pounds of oxtail "
https://www.today.com/food/trends/oxtail-price-gentrification-black-history-rcna72053
@Shelter @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN I can't wait to see what is next. Dried legumes are still sort of cheap; let's hope the rich don't get a hankering for 15-bean and ham hocks. We're already paying 5 times what they cost in the 90's.
@Shelter @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN I remember paying 12¢ for Maruchan, which is a step up from Nissin "Top Ramen."
I feel old.
Yep.
Maruchan.
79 damn cents
@Shelter @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN Capitalism ruins everything.
@aspecurian @Shelter mmmm, black eyed peas and ham hock. Yumm, takes me back to Virginia in my youth.
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN @Shelter Black eyed peas definitely need the flavor from the hocks. Alone, they taste like dirt.
@aspecurian @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN
Cheap ramen that used to be 5/$100 is now 79¢ a package at my grocery store.